I want to look at the land use on the shoreline of a river relative to a specifc point on the river. I have created a point on the shoreline using the Near tool. Following this I am having trouble. I ...

I have a point feature that I would like to buffer to select segments that are within 15 meters of the point. The code I have is working but it's influenced by the map scale. Zooming in or out changes ...

I have about 10,000 points that I want to apply a partial circular buffer to based on an angle, from -30 to 135°.
A similar question for polygons seems to have been answered here, but I cannot make ...

I would like to set a white buffer around labels in a mapfile (Mapserver version 6.2.1). In the official documentation, I can't find a specific parameter for this... I have tried the SHADOWCOLOR and ...

How does one create a wedge polygon from a point?
If I have 2000 points, I want each to have a wedge starting at each point with each point having a defined azimuth that the wedge points toward. That ...

I am working in ArcMap 10.2 (and Modelbuilder) and I would like to solve the following problem:
I have Buffer A (single part) and Buffer B (multipart). I would like to extend Buffer A with Buffer B ...

I'm writing an Arcpy program to process data in a layer of several hundred points ('ptsLyr', from file 'ptsFile'), each of which has its own ID ('RecordID') and an associated value, 'radius', that I ...

I would like to decrease the size of polygons by percentage and not by distance in order to implement this into ModelBuilder to loop over a number of polygons. To my knowledge this tool is available ...

Could someone help me with the following?
I have a polygon shapefile and need to create new polygons, within the originals, as % of original area.
I used buffer by field (Field= new area as %) but the ...

I have 10m buffers around line features and a point shapefile which has some points intersecting the buffer.
I would like to take each point that falls within the buffer and assign it the value of the ...

I got some university coursework to analyse the best potential areas for a residential development project and I'm currently doing multi-criteria evaluation. One of the shapefiles in the dataset given ...

For my thesis I'm modeling the identification of recreation areas.
Therefore, there has been a survey where people were asked to specify where they recreate. They had to indicate this place on a map ...

Once again I encounter something very strange with ArcGIS. I perform a buffer analysis on one side of a polyline. There seems to be a serious accuracy problem and I can't figure out what the cause is. ...

I am trying to estimate population for each Geonames populated place (PPL) in Tanzania.
There are about 8000 PPL, represented by point features, however population data is missing.
I used ArcGIS to ...

Given is a map with an airport. Within a distance of 5km around the runway there is a so called no fly zone for drones (in Switzerland). I want to show this zone in a map.
What I would like to do is ...

I'm running QGIS 2.6 on a Mac, and trying to create buffers around a point shapefile. The process seems to work: (Vector>Geoprocessing Tools> Buffer(s), I select my input layer, leave the segments at ...

I am working on a script that imports a .csv layer that has lat long coordinates, which I then want to buffer in feet.
I've created a vector layer from the .csv file and tried to set the coordinate ...

I have a park polygons layer and a set of points which I gave a 1000m buffer. For each of them I had calculated the area size with calculate geometry. So with which tool could I calculate the size of ...

I have population data matched with polygons and a set of points that I have drawn buffers around. Assuming that the population within each geographical area, i.e. the polygons, is evenly distributed, ...

I have a test raster that covers the world ((-180 90), (180 -90)). The SRID is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326). Values for cells in the north-western quadrant ((-180 90), (0 0)) are random integers in the range 1 ...

I am wondering to change and alter a model on the fly.
I have a whole process( model for the rest is done) that relies on different settings for buffers, and what I am trying to do is after I am not ...

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a tool or plugin for QGIS that allows for multi-ring buffers. I've found a post about doing multiple buffers one by one, but was hoping there was a way to do this all ...

I have population data matched with polygons and a set of points that I have drawn buffers around. Assuming that the population within each geographical area, i.e. the polygons, is evenly distributed, ...

I have a point shapefile "Negative_vel". With the command Analysis tools-Proximity-Buffer and selecting 50m as a linear unit and dissolve type ALL I created a new .shp "Negative_vel_buffer50m". But ...

I need to create a 32.1869 km (20 miles) buffer around my attributes, but the problem is the CRS needs to stay in NAD83. Is there a work around so I will be able to create buffers in km but still have ...

I create maps for wildfire risk assessments and am constantly asked to plot "defendable space" buffer zones around building envelopes that are different distances on different sides of the buildings. ...

I am quite new to postgres/postgis and are still learning basic skills.
I have imported a pointlayer shapefile into my postgres database.
I need to make a buffer of varying radius around the points ...

I've created buffers around home origins and am looking to calculate the sum of shapefiles (in this case crime) within each buffer. How would I go about doing this? I want to know how many crimes are ...

How could I build a multiple ring buffer/query analysis in my silverlight project? I have a working evacuation zone analysis in my project where I can query all elements within a specified distance ...

Two methods of selection in ArcMap that I thought would be the same are in fact not equal. I created a 3 mile buffer around a single line feature (approx 6mi in length). I'm working with parcels, as ...